Summarize and evaluate Locke’s case
Your essay should be a minimum of 300 words.
- Which seems more likely to you: that your path in life is determined before you are born, or that you are born and then you determine how your life will go? Why? Is there a middle ground on the issue? Defend your answers
Your essay should be a minimum of 300 words.
- Summarize and evaluate Locke’s case against innate ideas. Does he successfully show that innate ideas do not exist? Defend your answers.
Your essay should be a minimum of 300 words.
- Hobbes says that once people cede power to a strong governmental authority, the authority yields total authority over them; the government’s power is unalterable and absolute. Do you think such a government is necessary for people to live in peace? Why or why not? What countries in the world today (if any) fit Hobbes’s description of the Leviathan?
Your essay should be a minimum of 300 words
- Art has been defined as representation, expression, and formalism. Is it a plausible theory that art is correctly characterized by just one of these three? Why or why not?
But…Is it Art?
Consider three iconic works of art: Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, and Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain.
You will write a two-part essay in which you will evaluate these works of art.
Part I: What would Plato, Aristotle, and Hume say about each work of art? Would they consider them to be beautiful? Why or why not? Be detailed in your analysis.
Part II: Of the three views of art covered this week (formalism, representation, and expression), which best describes each of the artworks mentioned above? Justify your answer.
Your essay should be 2-3 pages in length and follow standard APA guidelines. Use 12-point, Times New Roman font. Your title and reference page do not count towards your page count.
